And the orient welkin is smit to flame with auroral crimsoning. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchman and Other Poems] Reference
The welkin is being made to ring with the figures of unemployment insurance registrations. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars and Sense] Reference
Rides the bleak puffing winds, that feem to fpit Their foam fparfe thro 'the welkin, which is nothing If not beheld. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
And the spray of its wrath to the welkin up-soars. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Such a shout arises as makes the very welkin ring. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment] Reference
Did wield under the welkin and lock'd them by war 1770. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
The sounds of the (invisible) drum filled the entire welkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
And our boys caught up the echo till it made the welkin ring. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
The while we made the welkin ring and with our shouts resound. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
Though like a speck o 'light, scarce seen amid the welkin dun. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
'Neath the welkin he waded, to the place whence the wine-house. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
And the welkin rang with what seemed to be the mirth of a lunatic. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Then Krishna also blew his conch filling the welkin with its blare. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Heaved grandly a frown on the welkin, a barricade nothing might pass. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
If he were here now, by this welkin, I would not draw my weapon on him. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Yonder ascends a cloud of dust that overspreads the welkin like a canopy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
The welkin being covered with the shafts of Drona's son, nothing could be seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Where I lay in slumber, and I gan for to sleep, methought that in the welkin came. From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
He filled the entire welkin with shafts inspired with the force of celestial weapons. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Then Karna, taking up in that battle a tougher bow, filled the welkin on every side of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Mark and his companions made the welkin ring with their shouts at the old man's answer. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
Boothblacks and newsboys were among them, and they made the welkin ring with their shouts. From Wordnik.com. [Halsey & Co. or, The Young Bankers and Speculators] Reference
The field of battle, terrible as it was, looked like the welkin teeming with vapoury forms. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Suta's son in that dreadful battle, shrouding the son of Pandu, seemed to stay in the welkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
But as we sped on side by side, I heard a great horn blast that seemed to set the welkin ablaze. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
Karna and covered the welkin, the Earth, and all the points of the compass with dense shower of arrows. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Arthur's companions than sixty thousand men with horns; the welkin gan to din, the earth gan to tremble!. From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
By this, that regenerate one filled the entire welkin and the ten points of the compass with his arrows. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Nakula, dressed with Kanka and peacock feathers, shrouding the Suta's son, seemed to stay in the welkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Then arose the multitudes 'clamour, that the earth dinned again, the welkin resounded for shout of the folk. From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
Walwain them met; there was wondrous cry, the welkin resounded; the earth gan to tremble, the stones there shivered!. From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
Addressing them, his sonorous voice rang over the welkin as the first notes of a trumpet summoning to the field of blood. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
And he succeeded in staying in the skies, with afflicted heart, like a person somehow staying between the welkin and the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
With that terrible clamour as also with the roar of fire, the whole welkin resounded, as it were, with the voice of portentous clouds. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
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